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2/9/03 through 2/14/03

Cool (Late) Valentines thing ...

Found this site via Anita. I think the message says it all!

Posted by: Jericho - 2/14/03 - 11:51 pm -

The weekend is here - finally!

Is it just me, or did this week seem to drag on for everyone else, too?

This is the longest week of my life - and it's not over yet. I have to work every one of the three days of this weekend. I mean, mind you, getting all the overtime will be nice. Getting this horrid project out of my hair will be good, too. But the least thing Father Time could have done was make the week move along at a normal pace. I thought this week was going to go into next month!

Anyway, I'm glad this weekend is here. I get to go in to work tomorrow, finish up final preparations and then actually do the conversion on our voicemail system that we have been talking about and rescheduling for the last six months. Then Sunday I get to do more detail work and test the thing. Then Monday I get to go in and catch up on all the work I have missed the last two weeks!

By Wednesday, I plan to be fully brain fried and ready to just curl up in a ball and suck my thumb for a month or so.

Posted by: Jericho - 2/14/03 - 11:21 pm -

What A Lucky Man He Was

I'm just so very lucky. I have pneumonia and no health insurance. Oh well, live fast, die young and leave a good looking corpse. Of course, I haven't lived fast, I'm not young and even alive I make an ugly corpse. So, instead our meager attempt at savings will be going to pay for my diagnosis and treatment.

The American health plan: don't get sick.

Now if it is all the same to you, I am going to go pass out.

Posted by: Max - 02/13/03 - 11:17am CST -

Gray Patch

Getting old just sucks.

I wanted to age with dignity. When I was twenty, I had no fear of aging - just no belief that I ever would reach an age beyond 25. At the time, I wanted to age well, I wanted my looks to mellow as I did. To become something graceful and stately.

Instead, my body is just falling apart and weird shit is happening. It's like puberty without all the cool perks. The ear hair gone mad is one thing, but I've now got my first official gray patch.

My beard has always been a wild mixture of hues, reds and blondes dance on my cheeks, while the goatee portion is much darker, bordering on black. About six months ago I noticed the first shocking white strands appear off center on my chin, under the line of my jaw, headed toward my left jaw. Now, it's a patch about the size of an elongated nickel. I would have preffered that there was some symmetry to this process, but no such luck.

Just call me Spot!

Posted by: Jericho - 2/12/03 - 6:57 pm -

Far too busy ...

I hate this. This week is already a nightmare and Monday just ended. I am far too busy to even sit here and write this! I should have been in bed over an hour ago.

This week is going to beat me into the ground. I have this project where we are changing how our whole voicemail network works - we've been working on this for five months now or more. I will be working all this week and this upcoming three day weekend right trough.

On top of that, I have been lobbying for a new, more informative web page for my team at work for a year and a half, I am the "web specialist" for my team. I'm getting most of that because they are entirely restructuring how our intranet works. That goes semi-live tomorrow. It goes all the way live on the 25th.

I am quitting my job on Feb. 29th!

Posted by: Jericho - 2/10/03 - 11:24 pm -

Stupid People

When I found myself out of the tech game, I thought it would reduce the number of idiots I would have to deal with on a regular basis. Then, the other day, this guy came into the drum department looking for heads and he didn't even know the difference between a pinstripe and a powerstroke III. I mean, come on! I should have sold him a G1. That would have shown him.

Posted by: Max - 02/09/03 - 9:46pm CST -

Where's Waldo, er, Jericho?

Where is Jericho, you may ask? Well, we at IWDC are having a little contest. Jericho is right now hiding somewhere on planet Earth. The first person to find him and tell him the IWDC secret phrase of the day wins the exact same prize awarded every chef who won on Iron Chef

Posted by: Max - 02/09/03 - 1:23pm CST -